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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
chasengaki 茶筅垣 ✓

Lit. tea whisk fence. A type of side fence *sodegaki 袖垣 in which…

Architecture, Gardens
chichibu ao-ishi 秩父青石

Lit. Chichibu blue stone. A type of *ao-ishi 青石, blue stone, from…

Architecture, Gardens
chirin 地輪

1 The base of a lantern. Also dairin 台輪.

2 The base of a five-storied…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen kaiyūshiki teien 池泉回遊式庭園

Lit. pond stroll style garden. A type of pond garden in which one walks around the pond. The most common kind of large…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen kanshōshiki teien 池泉観賞式庭園 ✓

Lit. pond appreciation style. A type of small garden in which the pond is viewed from a veranda or from inside a room,…

Architecture, Gardens
chisen shūyūshiki teien 池泉舟遊式庭園

Lit. boating pond style. A type of pond-stroll garden *chisen kaiyūshiki…

Architecture, Gardens
chōshizenshugi 超自然主義

Lit. hyper-naturalism. The idea of basing a garden, or a single element in it, on nature, but exaggerating the natural…

Architecture, Gardens
chōzubachi 手水鉢

Lit. hand water bowl. A water basin used to rinse the hands or as a decorative element in gardens. Usually made of stone,…

Architecture, Gardens
chūdai 中台

The middle base of a lantern *tōrō 灯籠 upon which rests the flame holder and…

Architecture, Gardens
chūshinseki 中心石

Lit. center stone(s). A single stone or stone arrangement *ishigumi 石組,…

Architecture, Gardens
hachimae-no-ishigumi 鉢前の石組

A washstand placed near a veranda or in the corner of an open veranda, shoin zashiki 書院座敷, or in the chief priest's…

Architecture, Gardens
haiseki 拝石

Lit. worship stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 from which one can…

Architecture, Gardens
hashibasami-ishi 橋挟石 ✓ Lit. bridge-anchoring stones. The stones placed at the four corners of a stone bridge ishibashi 石橋. Also called the… Architecture, Gardens
heitenseki 平天石

Lit. flat top stone. A name for stones flattened on the top side. Heitenseki may be used to express the wings of…

Architecture, Gardens
heri-ishi 縁石

Also called *katsura-ishi 葛石. Lit. edging stone. A stone used as a border…

Architecture, Gardens
higaki 檜垣 Lit. Cypress fence. A type of fence in which the bark of the Japanese cypress, hinoki 檜, is braided into a net pattern or… Architecture, Gardens
himuroike 氷室池

Lit. icehouse pond. A functional type of garden pond used in the winter for cutting ice. In case like the himuroike…

Architecture, Gardens
hirabashi 平橋 A flat bridge made of wood, wood and sods, or stone.
Architecture, Gardens
hirahashi 平橋 Lit. flat bridge. A simple kind of garden bridge made with flat wooden boards. In its simplest form, a hirahashi may… Architecture, Gardens
hishigaki 菱垣

Lit. lozenge fence. A type of open fence made with bamboo or other types of wood braided into lozenge shapes. A good example…

Architecture, Gardens
hokusō sansuigashiki teien 北宋山水画式庭園

Lit. gardens in the style of Northern Song landscape painting. A modern term that stresses the compositional similarities…

Architecture, Gardens
honmikage 本御影

Lit. true mikage 御影. A type of high quality granite, kakōgan 花崗岩 quarried in the Mikage region of the city…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai enzanseki 蓬莱遠山石

Lit. Penglai distant mountain stone. A technique in which the stone representing Mt. Penglai *…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai gantō 蓬莱岩島

Lit. Penglai rock island. The technique of representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan…

Architecture, Gardens
hōrai teien 蓬莱庭園

Lit. Penglai garden. A general term for a garden focused thematically on Mt. Penglai *…

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hōrai yōshiki 蓬莱様式

Lit. Penglai style. A type of garden in which there presentation of Mt. Penglai *…

Architecture, Gardens
hōraibune 蓬莱舟 ✓

Also called a boat stone funa-ishi 舟石 or treasure-boat stone takarabune-ishi 宝舟石. Lit. Penglai boat. A…

Architecture, Gardens
hōraiseki 蓬莱石

Lit. Penglai stone. A garden stone representing Mt. Penglai *Hōraisan 蓬莱山,…

Architecture, Gardens

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University